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Affliction (1997)
21K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style:
psychological, rough, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film, bleak, depressing, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, snow, small town life, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, insanity, abusive father, domestic violence, addiction, character study, drinking, murder, alcoholic, attorney, halloween, self destructing, haunted by the past, violence, death, child abuse, murder mystery, father son relationship, hunting, drunkenness ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and suspense films with plots about murder, death, dialogue, twists and turns, storytelling, corruption and police investigation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Affliction: Bringing Out the Dead (1999), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Misery (1990), The Crossing Guard (1995), Winter's Bone (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, detective, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, haunted by the past, murder, hit and run, loss of daughter, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, car accident, tragic event, justice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, los angeles, glendale california, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
anal rape, rape, gay rape, male rape, dysfunctional family, murder, small town, gay incest, teenage boy, psychopath, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, witty, tense, touching ...
Plot:
twists and turns, father son relationship, sheriff, police investigation, murder, investigation, small town, family history, greed, police corruption, haunted by the past, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1996
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, southern usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
104K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
arkansas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
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Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman becomes inexplicably attracted to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, danger, couples, love and romance, neighbor, mysterious character, small town life, dating, dishonesty, twists and turns, murder mystery, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, new york state
Similarity:
29%
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
374K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, visually stunning, social, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, new york state
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Betty has a crush on her tennis instructor Mike. He promises to call her for a date, but never does – she doesn’t know he sells drugs on the side. After botching a deal on someone else’s turf, Mike has to disappear for a while. He contacts ...
Style:
neo noir, depressing, realistic, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey
Similarity:
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6K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, missing child, little girl, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, poverty ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
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Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
25%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
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Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only ...
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, psychological, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
journalism, disappearance, small town, father daughter relationship, homecoming, small town life, society, haunted by the past, doubts and hesitations, reporter, photograph, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
25%
120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as "a cross between Psycho's Norman Bates, ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, disturbing, offbeat, clever ...
Plot:
serial killer, american football, psychopath, small town, xmas, killer, death, murder, violence, poison, heart attack, high school football ...
Time:
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Place:
oregon, vancouver
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, contemplative, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, nudity, private investigator, female nudity, investigation, corruption, femme fatale, small town, injustice, power relations, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, prostitute, murder, uncover truth, family relations, life is a bitch, outdoor sex, violence against women, dead body, promiscuous daughter, child abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
Similarity:
25%
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